2 days off this week

I was off yesterday and today. I worked on Monday and then I work tomorrow. On Friday, I go to another school for some Professional Development. On Saturday, Jesse moves in and then on Monday I get to see a fellow fellow from NYCTF.

So as for teaching stories. I have one boy who I continue to send out or give detention. I wrote an email to his mom, and told her that one of the infractions her son had was to pretend to hold a joint up to his lips. He pinched his first finger and thumb together and put them to his lips in a smoking movement and facial. Of course, his mom tells me he knows nothing of drugs and that I shouldn't assume he was pretending to smoke a joint. I didn't reply back, but if her son doesn't know about drugs, then my question to her is, "Why not?" he should know about drugs at 13 years old from his mom's instruction as to the dangers of drugs, especially marijuana. So, she can be critical of my assumption as to what he was mimicking, but I know she is being naive. This young man just needs to settle down

I had another student write a note that started, "Dear Life, I hate my life. I hate my school." It went on to call me a vulgar term along with my assistant teacher in this class. She got in school suspension for the infraction. She is the same girl I called Pasha in a previous post and she had stolen from a fellow classmate. She really has some issues she needs to work through as a pre-teen girl. Her mom is real supportive and she frequently comes up and hugs me, but this is just a tough child to figure out.

I went home for the weekend. JEFF was home. I am so happy I saw him. I felt like I just wanted to hug him over and over and over. OMG... It was so good to go home. I enjoyed the leaves on the trees. I visited so many people, we went to Mom and Dad's house Saturday morning for Coffee. Then Donavan came over (Walt's step-son)and he visited. Then Athena, Mark and Leah came to my house so that I could meet Leah, my new Great-Niece. She was a sweety pie. I loved having her at my house. She is a happy girl and is just perfect in all the ways a baby should be perfect! Then mom and dad came to my house.
When they left people were coming for dinner. We had Randy and Giorgi, Joanna and kids all over for dinner. I made Macaroni Roma. It's a family recipe that I love to make because it takes so long to make. Then they all left. Slept in my own bed.

Sunday morning Jeff, Scott, and I went to Ithaca to see DREW, KATE, ALANA, MATT, and MIKE. OMG we had a wonderful breakfast. Thank you Drew... just you wait. I loved hearing about IC life and the math classes and professors.

Scott and I came back to the city. We then went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday. We saw some of the most amazing art, and we were in a little hurry because we only had about 3 hours. The VanGogh paintings just bring me to tears. Those and the Georges Seurat and the Jackson Pollack paintings were amazing. We saw some Andy Warhol, and Picasso. We spent some time in the hall with Roman and Greek statues. there were several students there drawing what they were seeing.

There is a suggested admission there, so we paid $15 for the two of us. Perfect. We had a great couple of days. I slept the one night for 12 hours. I think I was exhausted.